Provenance:
Private Collection, USA

ABOUT THE WORK

As a painter of picturesque landscapes and seascapes, Isidro Ancheta’s style consists of hard lines and a dark yet realistic palette. His favored themes and a recurring subject in his oeuvre are fishing and seashore scenes that he rendered using oils on wood or canvas. In the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904 in Missouri, Ancheta showcased eight paintings. Victims of War, one of the eight paintings exhibited, received an honorable mention. Shortly afterward, he gained a myriad of admirers and patrons, and classrooms across the Philippines hung his paintings on its walls. Ancheta was a good friend of Fernando Amorsolo, Irineo Miranda, Dominador Castañeda, and Jose Pereira. They frequently traveled and sketched concurrently across the rural localities of Teresa, Marikina, and Montalban. It was also during this period that Ancheta’s and Amorsolo’s landscapes would often resonate with each other. To this day, Ancheta is celebrated and revered for his legacy of conferring unfaltering admiration for landscapes and seascapes.